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Happiness
«When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.»
«When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
closed-door, closed, closes, door, has-been, opened, opens, Open a Door, so long
«When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.»
«Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
at once, destroyed, foolish, preparation, preparations, seize, The Pleasure
«With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Last Day, multitudes, obliged, regard to, with regard to, zealously
«When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
awaken, beloved, cast, faces, glow, surrounding, T, The Faces, The Face of, The Glow, torn, unhappiness, vocation, vocations
«Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
in writing, nirvana, pasture, putting green, put to sleep
«When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligen»